Rev. Jesse Jackson visits HIV infected children in Libya

"The American Civil Rights advocate, Rev. Jesse Jackson and his accompanying delegation visited Wednesday morning the Contagious Diseases Center in Benghazi, where he saw the state of the Libyan children infected with HIV virus during their vaccination rounds in Benghazi hospital," reported JANA yesterday.

The report added "In the course of his hospital visit Rev. Jackson met the parents of the children, expressing deep regrets over this humanitarian catastrophe perpetrated against those children and their parents. One of the parents of the infected children delivered a speech welcoming the American human rights advocate and his accompanying delegation."

The report said "He stressed that the rule issued by Benghazi's Court of Appeal against the defendants has awakened the world conscious towards the magnitude of this human tragedy which victimized over 400 children, besides 19 mothers to whom infection was transferred through breast feeding."